1, eat longan: Fuzhou, Fujian Province, there is a traditional custom called "white dew must eat longan". The folk meaning is, in the white dew this day to eat longan has a great tonic body effect. Because longan itself is beneficial to the spleen, nourish the blood and tranquilize the spirit, moisturize the skin and beauty and other effects, but also can treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and many other diseases.
2, white dew tea: folk "spring tea bitter, summer tea astringent, to drink tea, fall white dew" said, this time the tea tree after the summer heat, before and after the white dew is the best period of its growth. By the White Dew Festival, autumn is getting thicker.
3, white dew rice wine: Zixing Xingning, Sandu, Tate River area has always had the custom of brewing. Every year, when the White Dew Festival arrives, every family brews wine, and must drink "soil wine" to receive guests. The wine is warm and slightly sweet, and is called "White Dew Rice Wine". Bailu wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".
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Climate
White Dew Festival plants begin to dew into the White Dew Festival, the summer winds are gradually replaced by winter winds, the cold air turned to defense, warm air gradually retreat. The cold air comes south in batches, often bringing a range of cooling.
At this time, precipitation is significantly reduced in northern China, and the fall is high and relatively dry. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River during this period, the first autumn rains can often alleviate the water shortage in the early stage;
But if the cold air meets with typhoons, or cold and warm air are evenly matched, both sides of the contest in and out of difficult times, the formation of torrential rains or low-temperature rainstorms are not conducive to the growth of crops in the fall. The eastern part of the southwest region, South China and West China also tends to have continuous rainy weather.
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